Microsoft with many of its organs and subsidized companies is actively being involved in crypto development and education.
It's involvement as such would surely boost the adaption and attention of cryptos.
They're not involved in cryptocurrency development rather blockchain technology itself.
The partnership is showing to the world that countiries have beginning to adopt the Blockchain technology. Crypto currency being the inventor of blockchain is expected to boom with this news.
How uninformed could you possibly get? Blockchain existed before cryptocurrencies. How can cryptocurrency work in the first place without its driving technology?